Spring training starts in earnest today, but if you’ve been paying any attention to Twitter you know that the majority of this season’s important players are already enjoying the weather on the back fields in Glendale, Ariz.. Editor emeritus and current Athletic sensation James Fegan is on the beat and captured my favorite image of […]
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Fun With White Sox PECOTA Player Comparisons
PECOTA Day brings me a lot of joy for a lot of reasons, but one of the most fun aspects of its release, at least to me, is looking at the player comparisons. Like last year, I’ve picked out some of my favorite White Sox player comparisons — fun, unusual, exciting — as we continue […]
PECOTA and the 2018 White Sox
Wednesday was PECOTA Day at the Baseball Prospectus, the day when our projection system spits out how it thinks the new season will unfold. You can view the full projections over at Baseball Prospectus, and the work that goes into them always make it worth your while, but let’s dive into some of the more noteworthy projections […]
The Top 101 Is Loaded With White Sox
The 101 is here! As a White Sox fan, for many years the 101 was like being the sad little Dickensian child on Christmas morning, nose pressed against the window of a happy family, watching other, happier children open their presents. “Maybe Addison Reed squeaked into the back of the list!” I’d say, shivering in […]
Brewers bold moves harbinger for the White Sox?
Somebody had to break the ice in this offseason’s “Cold” Stove and it wasn’t the New York Yankees, Los Angeles Dodgers, Boston Red Sox or even the Chicago Cubs to do it. It was the all of a sudden aggressive Milwaukee Brewers. The Brew Crew traded for uber-talented outfielder Christian Yelich and then signed all-star outfielder […]
The Ghost of Rowand
Jim Thome is now a first ballot Hall of Famer. As Collin pointed out, although Thome will go into the Hall as a Cleveland Indian, his White Sox tenure was still a success and he still feels like Our Guy. Yes, I am still disproportionately upset the White Sox let him go to the Twins […]
Jim Thome isn’t our guy, but it definitely feels like he is
Jim Thome isn’t our guy. You know how teams have their guy? Some of them are easy to pick out. Frank Thomas is obviously our guy. Paul Konerko? Mark Buehrle? Maybe shy of Hall of Fame standards, but they’re our guys. Derek Jeter is a Yankee. The newly-elected Trevor Hoffman is a Padre. He’s their guy, even if he bounced […]
The most valuable White Sox position player prospect of the Millennium
It’s been a long time since the White Sox had a single position player prospect worth getting as excited about as Yoan Moncada, Eloy Jimenez, or Luis Robert. Having a troika of players who should at worst be competent major leaguers is a delightful change and a reminder that things weren’t always so bleak. During […]
The beautiful, baffling brilliance of Esteban Loaiza’s 2003 season
One of the best things about baseball, from a narrative standpoint at least, is that it is the sport of second chances. The other leagues have the occasional Kurt Warner or Scott Darling story, but nothing close to the frequency and impressiveness that baseball does. Ron LeFlore was recruited out of prison. Evan Gattis was […]
White Sox Bring Back Miguel Gonzalez On One-Year Deal
While the eerily passive offseason continues, the White Sox remain active, albeit in a modest fashion appropriate for their situation. On Wednesday, Miguel Gonzalez agreed to return to the South Side on a one-year, $4.75 million contract. After pouncing on Gonzalez once Baltimore put him on waivers in 2016, he and Don Cooper gelled marvelously and […]